The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-29
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| labor thus divided, does not become onerous.
JAMES IovELEss, a railroad section boss, was
riding on a railroad bicycle ON the Pemserton
and Seashore railroad when he was overtaken
by an extra train, consisting OF an engine ana
Supt. Bannard's special car, ana ms macniue
run down. He was killed outright.
THE Secretary of the Litchheld, Comm
School Committee recently received box con-
tanning two dozen extra quality nne-inch foot
balls They were sent by some one signing MINI
self IAN Old Boy who desired that they might
be distributed among the twenty-five free
schools of the town.
A STONE weighing five or six tons. which had
apparently recently fallen, has been found near
Bearbrook, on the line Of the Canada Atlantic
railway. 1t is almost entirely beneath the. sur
face of the clay soil on which it struck and the
ground around shows signs of great disturbance.
The stone is of a dull gray.
Pope LEO XIII. has a passion for planting
trees. His first work after his election was to
plant the garden of the Vatican with fruit trees
and vines and this year, for the first time, the
grapes of the Vatican garden are tur0ed into
wine. His holiness gives all orders and person
ally superintends the operation.
FRANK w BRAGG, a Boston boy, who went to
Elsinore, CAL this fall, was poisoned by poison
oak, and, as q result, became insane and wan
dered away from the hotel where he boarded.
He was traced to Los Angeles by means OF let
tiers that he had torn up and scattered In his
path, and he is now in the hospital at Los
Angeles.
A CALIFORNIAN says that in August, while
driving near Pomona, one of his party pointed
out great mass of tarantulas crawling by the
roadside The party shot scores of them, and
then succeeded in getting fifty or sixty into
water pail Then began tremendous hght De-
tween these big spiders, which ended only when
every one in the pail was dead.
o. To- ho
bly, the Oldest pative-born white American liv-
ing. She wa born on Greenfield Hill Conn, in
the fall of ITO and was little that the nurse
could and did put her into pewter teapot and
closed the id. But as the old Lady says, y
| lived and grew NICELY She bore Twelve cnno-
| rem all but two of whom are dead.
ONE of the men employed to find OFT the leak
Of gas pipe on Market street, Harrisburg, Pa,
struck piece of flint with his pick. which
| ignited the leaking gas that permeated through
the limestone rock No less than 100 flames
could be seen all along the road, and the street
was as light as day. 1t was not until a trench
| was dug and the pipe reached that the fire could
be eXtinguished
BLACKSMITH miller, of Louisville, was shoe
ing a mule the other day and drove a nail
through the hoof so that the point projected an
| inch and half. He was about to twist off the
nail and clinch it, when the mule gave his hoof
a tremendous jerk and the nail caught Miiler's
arm ana cOllDetelN severed Lfle muscles anu dr.
teries of the left forearm. Miller's life was
saved with difficulty.
WILLIAM A. JOHNSON, who recently died at a
good old age in Lisbon, Conn, was a workman
worthy of the name. He was wagon maker,
and one of his last Jobs was to repair an OK cart
which he built in 1892. and which had been. in
constant use for fitty-tive years without repair;
His first job in Lisbon was to make set of
wheels. They have been used on farm wagon
fifty-six years and are just as good as ever.
CONNECTICUT FARMERS who took turkeys to
Hartford just before Thanksgiving to sell from
house to house were considerably surprised
when they were forced to have their scales in
spected. Nine out of seventeen were short
weight, and some of them were absolutely
worthless One old farmer. who objected de-
cidedly to the examination, was told that he had
been cheating himself, 10! these many years.
PROBABLY the most extensively dressed man
seen in Pittsburg for many a day was Toy Sun,
San Francisco merchant, who went through
| there recently on his way to Washington. H
garments were a combination Of silks, satins
and laces, and five big diamonds did duty for
buttons To a reporter Dir. Sun said that be
thought that the law prohibiting Chinese i'm
| migration was good one, and should be rigidly
enforced.
TEE other day Mike Wallace, veteran miner
of Water Canon, n. NJ, was strolhng up the
| canon with companion when they came upon
| regular herd of bears. Mike began using his
Winchester and when he had exhausted the
magazine seized his friends rifle and continued
the fusiilade. When the smoke of the battle
rolled away seven bears lay on the ground dead.
Wallace says that there were nineteen bears in
| the herd and that the two last that he shot
were within ten feet of him when he dropped
| them.
AN elderly clergyman, the holder Of a living
near Exeter, Eng, let his proclivities for sport
| lead him into an amusing mistake recently.
TI,or af,d an IF fbn h,sn
dance of wild fowl in the eighborhood, one day
went down the river and succeeded in killing six
prime ducks. The ducks were taken to the
snortman S house and one prepared for the
table, when neighboring tradesman discov-
| cred that six tame" ducks of his we're lost
The dead birds were returned with an apology
for the error.
HERE'S story told by the Philadelphia Press
which we're much inclined to doubt. II doesn't
sound a bit like Mrs. Cleveland ''At one of the
receptions given to Mrs. Cleveland in this city
the wife of well known citizen of Philadelphia
found herself for a moment close beside
the Presidents wife, and there was one
of those awkward pauscs which sometimes
occur, even in the M st polite society. The
Philadelphian broke it by saying to the mistress
of the White House, L suppose you left Mr.
Cleveland at Washington Drawing herself up
TO her full height. Mrs. Cleveland said with
naughty dignity: DO you refer to the President
of the United States. madam"
a VERY GOOD SHOWING Is maze Dy Inc Freed
mans Aid Society of the work it has accom-
plished. The society has established "a schools.
employing 124 teachers, with an average at
tendance of 1905 pupils There are Is schools
for whites, with an attendance Of 1000 To
carry out the work on the plans proposed for
next year will require almost S250GO0 and of
this sum only 500 is on hand Since its fotlnda-
ton the society has expended almost 50. 100000
in the work of education In the SO tn and has
school property of almost 81 900 900 in value in
its possession The receipts for last year were
S184 44 s., of which sum the conference collec-
tons amounted to SS5,930 requests Welded
$4,000 %. OF the receipts of Sis4, 42i IS, only
S20.9j7 55 was paid by students. The total ex
pense for the year amounted to S1S3, $50 SO.
LOTTERIES are regular State Institutions, car
ried on as sources of revenue by the govern
ments Of the continent of Europe, and multi
tudes of poor people year by year sacrifice a
portion Of their hard earnings to buy chances
for prize. A carpenter at Hamburg who sup
ported his mother by his labor, and had Invested
in share, was watching the progress of the
drawing, hoping for prize. One evening on
returning home from work a messenger awaited
him, reporting that he had won a large prize
He was beside himself with icy and inlinedi. |
good news confirmed. The agent told him there
must be mistake, as the poor mans number
had not been drawn at all The report was |
found out to have been hoax played on him nv |
some acquaiGtauces. The JOY of the man had !
been so great that the disappointment following
completely unnerved h i'm. He did not go to his |
work any more, neither did he go home to Ills |
mother. few days after he was found aim |
lessly tramping the street.-the excitement had
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